Improvement in eel-traps for water-pipes



niih *5S-mit i@ anni @frn i JCsIAH J. DUTCEER,` 0E NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AssIeNon rov y GODFREY W. DUTCHER, 0F SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 113.278, dated April 4, 1871.

kIMPROVEMENT IN EEL-TRAPS FQR`WA'NI'ER-PIPES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JosIAH J. DUTCHEE, of New Haven, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and improved Eelf Trap for Water-Pipes; and I do hereby declare that.

The object of this invention is to provide an eeltrap at the extreme end of the water-pipe let into a main or reservoir, s'o that the eels cannot enter a portion of the pipe. Y

Eel-traps were heretofore lfitted into the pipes near tothe cocks placed at their endsand were basketshaped, of wire. rlhey were quite effectual in their places, butdid not keep eels out ofthe extreme ends of the pipes, which were, in consequence, frequently blocked and stopped up by said animals. It is a matter of extreme trouble and expense to take np the pipes and remove the animals that clog them. To prevent this I affix an eel-trap in the extreme inner end of the pipe, by securing a number of wires tothe rod vthat enters the tap or drive,'making it therefore impossible for an animal -of such size that it could stopthe pipe to enter the same.

A in the drawingr represents a portion of a waterpipe driven into a main-pipe, B, or fitted into a suitable water-reservoir.

The pipe A can be of suitable form, according to longitudinally, as shown,

the manner in which it is to be applied, either as in figs. 1 and 2, or otherwise.

The extreme end of the 'pipe A, Where it enters the reservoir, surrounds a central rod, a, whichA is screwed into it, or otherwise secured, in Athe ordinary manner. i Such rods were heretofore used, and had the object of clearing the end of the pipes from obstructions produced by the piercing of the main pipe. y

I affix to the lower part ofthe rod a an eel-trap, in form of a set of wires-b b,'which project against the inner circumference of the pipe, so as to subdivide the annular space for the entrance of lthe Water into sections too small forueels of sufficient diameter to clog the pipe.l

This celtrap projects partly'beyond the endof the Ypipe A, as shown, and serves, therefore, 'as a complete protection for the whole length of the pipe..

It will be observed thatA before the cock, shown yin iig. l, can be turned, it will be necessary to draw the vtrap upward above the cock, by means of the rod a,

which operation is easily effected.

The trap, instead of being made of wires placed or spiral, or other rods, in equivalent manner.

Having thus described my invention, i I claim as newy and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 'y An eel-trap, applied to the water-pipe so as to project beyond the inner end of the same into the main or reservoir, as speciljed.

JOSIH J, DUTOHER.

Witnesses J. A. Woon, H. L. HoTCHKIss.

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